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Job overview

Are you a Pharmacy Technician who is passionate about delivering excellent pharmacy services and patient care?  Are you looking to take the next step in your career? Do you have the drive and enthusiasm to work in a busy hospital pharmacy department? If so, this exciting opportunity is waiting for you at Pharmacy@LTHTR. 

As a Clinical Pharmacy Service we aim to provide an outstanding pharmacy service throughout Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. Recently we have developed an integrated team model working with our EPMA system and digital pharmacy whiteboard to deliver a modern pharmacy service. 

Our Clinical Pharmacy team includes medicines management assistants, ward-based medicine management technicians, clinical pharmacy technicians ,Pharmacists and Pharmacist Prescribers.  

This post is based across both sites - Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley and South Ribble Hospital.  Flexible working hours are considered, our ideal candidate would be able to work until 7:30pm.  An example shift would look like 11:30am to 7:30pm for a full time position. 

Main duties of the job

If you are ambitious, self-motivated and enthusiastic, and these values resonate with you, then we would love for you to join our team and contribute to our award-winning services

Alongside ward based medicines management duties, there are opportunities to work in our Pharmacy Technician Lead Chemotherapy Unit providing our service to oncology patients.  We are also able to offer our Medicines Management Technicians the opportunity to rotate through more specialised areas such as ward based Oncology, Neurology, Renal, Paediatrics.

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this post. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

Working hours are advertised between 11:30am and 7:30pm Monday to Friday with each shift being 7.5 hours and a 30 minute lunch break.  There is also a requirement to work one Saturday or Sunday every five weeks (you’ll then get a day off the following week) and one bank holiday a year.  Weekend and Bank Holiday shifts have additional pay rates.  

As a Trust, we support agile and flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. You'll have an opportunity to discuss this at interview or please get in touch prior to applying to discuss in more detail. 

Working for our organisation

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients.  Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done.  You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path. 

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.